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Re: ${!variable@operator} does not work for variables without values; inconsistencies between present and absent [@] for @A and @a

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On 2/20/20 6:23 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:


> Even more strangely, quoting apparently matters...

Yes, this is a bug:

> $ echo "${VAR1[@]@A}"
> declare -rl VAR1=''

>> The question is whether the unset variables should display commands to
>> set the attributes (@A) or display any attributes (@a).
> 
> I think that it would be expected that @A prints the same as 'declare
> -p' for given variable.

That's not unreasonable, but it takes some consideration. You have to be
careful separating out these cases from the usual case, where a variable
name in a brace expansion is expanded to nothing if it's unset.

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Re: ${!variable@operator} does not work for variables without values;  inconsistencies between present and absent [@] for @A and @a Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2020-02-21 08:18 -0500

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